If you want your next read to have GLBT themse, this is a great list to start with! For the complete list of finalists, see the Lambda Literary Foundation web site. The site also lists past winners and nominees.
Watch 2012 Lammy for the winners in May! Here are finalist titles that the Denver Public Library owns, you may be able to acquire other titles on the list through Interlibrary Loan.
Bisexual Literature
History of a Pleasure Seeker, Richard Mason, Random House / Alfred A. Knopf
In One Person, John Irving, Simon & Schuster
Gay General Fiction
The Absolutist, John Boyne, Other Press
The Lava in My Bones, Barry Webster, Arsenal Pulp Press
Lovers, Daniel Arsand, Europa Editions
These Things Happen, Richard Kramer, Unbridled Books
Gay Memoir/Biography
Fire in the Belly, Cynthia Carr, Bloomsbury
Midstream: An Unfinished Memoir, Reynolds Price, Scribner
My Husband and My Wives: A Gay Man’s Odyssey, Charles Rowan Beye, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Gay Mystery
Dos Equis, Anthony Bidulka, Insomniac Press
Gay Poetry
Looking for the Gulf Motel, Richard Blanco, University of Pittsburgh Press
Slow Lightning, Eduardo C. Corral, Yale University Press
Gay Romance
Don’t Let Me Go, J.H. Trumble, Kensington
Lesbian General Fiction
Carry the One, Carol Anshaw, Simon & Schuster
The Last Nude, Ellis Avery, Riverhead Books
Theft: A Novel, BK Loren, Counterpoint Press
The World We Found: A Novel, Thrity Umrigar, HarperCollins Publishers / Harper
Lesbian Memoir/Biography
All We Know: Three Lives, Lisa Cohen, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama, Alison Bechdel, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination, Sarah Schulman, University of California Press
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?, Jeanette Winterson, Grove/Atlantic
Lesbian Mystery
Jacob’s War, C.P. Rowlands, Bold Strokes Books
Lemon Reef, Robin Silverman, Bold Strokes Books
Rest for the Wicked, Ellen Hart, Minotaur Books
Lesbian Poetry
Snowflake/different streets, Eileen Myles, Wave Books
Lesbian Romance
Dark Wings Descending, Lesley Davis, Bold Strokes Books
Love Match, Ali Vali, Bold Strokes Books
Month of Sundays, Yolanda Wallace, Bold Strokes Books
Runaway, Anne Laughlin, Bold Strokes Books
LGBT Anthology
No Straight Lines: Four Decades of Queer Comics, Justin Hall – Editor, Fantagraphics Books
Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots? Flaming Challenges to Masculinity, Objectification, and the Desire to Conform, Edited by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, AK Press
LGBT Children’s/Young Adult
Adaptation, Malinda Lo, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, Benjamin Alire Saenz, Simon & Schuster/ Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Ask the Passengers, A.S. King, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Beautiful Music for Ugly Children, Kirstin Cronn-Mills, Flux Books
Every Day, David Levithan, Knopf Books for Young Readers
Kiss the Morning Star, Elissa Janine Hoole, Amazon Children’s Publishing
The Miseducation of Cameron Post, Emily M. Danforth, Balzer + Bray
Personal Effects, E.M. Kokie, Candlewick Press
Silhouette of a Sparrow, Molly Beth Griffin, Milkweed Editions
LGBT Debut Fiction
The Evening Hour, Carter Sickels, Bloomsbury
Love, In Theory: Ten Stories, E.J. Levy, University of Georgia Press/Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction
Monstress, Lysley Tenorio, HarperCollins Publishers / Ecco
LGBT Nonfiction
Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America, Christopher Bram, Hachette Book Group/Twelve
Far From The Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity, Andrew Solomon, Scribner
Flagrant Conduct: The Story of Lawrence v. Texas, Dale Carpenter, W. W. Norton & Company
I Must Resist: Bayard Rustin’s Life in Letters, Michael Long, Editor, City Lights
Real Man Adventures, T Cooper, McSweeney’s
LGBT Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror
Heiresses of Russ 2012: the Year’s Best Lesbian Speculative Fiction, Connie Wilkins and Steve Berman, Lethe Press
Night Shadows: Queer Horror, Greg Herren and J.M. Redmann, eds., Bold Strokes Books
LGBT Studies
How To Be Gay, David M. Halperin, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press